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Stuart Brady: Labour’s near-invisible

candidate

On 3 February 2018, Loughborough Labour Party selected Nottingham barrister

Stuart Brady as its new prospective parliamentary candidate for the next general

election.

One of the reasons that Brady was chosen was because he promised an immediate

and highly ambitious programme of campaigning and he had explicitly stated that

“if selected, in the first 50 days” he would carry out five specific tasks:

“Conduct a ‘road-show’ across every town or village in the constituency, supported

by Facebook advertising, to allow voters to meet their Labour candidate. Ensure

that Labour’s East Midlands Conference with Jeremy Corbyn in Loughborough in

February is turned into a major local campaigning event. Book a series of high-

profile speakers to excite members and voters and turn every campaign session

into an event. Make a detailed, exciting, and innovative plan to ensure every

potential student voter for Labour is identified and registered in Loughborough.

Agree a detailed week-by-week campaign plan with the local Labour Party,

contingency plans for a snap election, and local campaign themes with each

Branch.”

Things started well and on 8 February Brady took part in a small protest in

Shelthorpe over the closure of the Children’s Centre and then appeared in

Loughborough marketplace and in Sileby two days later.

Brady then spoke at the East Midlands

Conference which was briefly attended by

Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn although he

appeared to have failed to have got a

photograph standing next to his leader. The

impact of the conference was marred by a

decision by East Midlands Labour Party to

charge different entry fees depending on your

colour – white people were asked to pay £10

more. This idea was only abandoned after the Equality and Human Rights